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TIL Philosophy majors outperform English majors on the GRE writing section

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kJep5 TIL that Linoleum is considered to be the first genericized trademark, having lost the ability to obtain trademark protection in the late 1800s — just 14 years after its introduction.
Zp8Yp TIL That Douglas Hamilton and Antonio Burr, Alexander Hamilton's 5th grandson and descendant of Aaron Burr's cousin respectively, reenacted the famous duel on its 200th anniversary.
epPy4 TIL that "heroin" was a brand name owned by Bayer until the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, when the German pharmaceutical company had to give up its trademarks for reparations.
edKL TIL The space shuttle Challenger explosion did not immediately kill the crew. The undamaged crew compartment broke free and continued to gain altitude to a peak of 65,000 feet before beginning a 2 minute 45 second free-fall into the Atlantic ocean.
LJXd TIL one of the biggest contributers to the original Oxford English Dictionary was an inmate at a lunatic asylum and former surgeon from the American civil war, incarcerated for shooting a man in London.